Shipping-tag.



No. 833,647. PATENTBD OCT. 16, 1906.

M. A. STEWART.

SHIPPING TAG.

APPLICATION FILED APB.7.1906.

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MATTHEW A. STEWART, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

SHIPPING-TAG- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 7, 1906. Serial No. 310.477.

Patented Oct. 16, 1906.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, MATTHEW A. STEWART, a citizen, of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shi ping-Tags, of which the following is a speci cation.

The object of this invention is to produce a shipping-tag that shall have advantages over such as are commonly used, and particularly a tag such that tearing 05 any large portion is unusually difiicult, while the removal of the portionbearing the name and address of the shipper is practically impossible, or at least highly improbable under the ordinary conditions of usage.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows one of the broad faces of a tag embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an end edge view of the tag. Fig. 4 is an end view of the blank from which the tag is made by folding.

The card maybeformed by folding a blank, Fig. 4, at the margins 00 y of a central longitudinal segment A of the card, one marginal portion B being folded against one face of the part A and the other marginal portion 0 being folded oppositely against the opposite face of the same part. There will thus be formed a tag having a portion of triple thickness extending. from end to end of the same, said portion being preferably of such width that it may bear in small type the name and address of the consignor, while the other pore tions may receive the name and address of the consignee. Preferably the three layers are cemented together by any suitable adhesive. At one end the corners of the tag may be cut off in the usual way, and near the same end 4 the heavy central portion is reinforced by disks D on each face, and through the disks and intermediate layers an eyelet E is passed to bind'the parts together, to prevent tearing, and to receive the usual attaching-string.

The folded edges of the central segment are slightly rounded, and hence should either lateral portion be torn up to these edges the rounding is sufficient to make tearing further much more difficult than it would be were the edges sharp or not rounded at all. The heavy middle portion, whether or not the layers are cemented together, is very unlikely to be torn across or to be torn loose from the string, even if subjected to unusually rough usage, and hence the article to which the tag is attached is practically never left with nothing to identify it. The thickened portion may be of slight width, and the tag costs in stock and labor hardly more than an ordinary tag.

What I claim is- 1. A shipping-tag having its lateral portions folded back upon the two faces, respectively, of a narrow middle portion of the body of the tag.

2. A shipping tag folded twice along lines parallel to its longer margins and having the meeting surfaces cemented together and forming a medial longitudinal segment of triple thickness.

3. A shipping-tag folded twice along lines parallel to two opposite edges, provided with reinforcing-disks near one end, and having an eyelet passed through said disks and the intermediate folded portions of the constituent paper.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MATTHEW A. STEWART.

Witnesses:

CHARLES F. FREDERICK, ELMER E. PATTEN. 

